People
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Newyork
35 Years of Efforts to Address Mental Illness on New York Streets
Mayors have launched numerous initiatives over the years to remove people with severe mental illness from the streets and subways.
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Newyork
New York’s Dilemma: Who Should Be Hospitalized Against Their Will?
Mayor Adams’s directive to remove people with mental illness from the streets raises a host of questions.
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Newyork
Xi Broke the Social Contract That Helped China Prosper
The protests in China against the government’s draconian Covid controls have been compared to those in 1989, when students demonstrated for political reforms and democracy. The 1989 pro-democracy movement occurred in the most liberal, tolerant and ...
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World
After Xi’s Coronation, a Roar of Discontent Against His Hard-Line Politics
Protests in China have roused a tradition of dissent that had seemed spent after 10 years under Xi Jinping. The effects may far outlast the street clashes.
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Newyork
The Wayward Joy of the Dinner Party
For T’s 2022 Holiday issue, we dropped in on 12 gatherings around the world, from Tokyo to New Orleans to Paris and beyond.
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Newyork
New York’s Plan to Address Crisis of Mentally Ill Faces High Hurdles
Many city residents agree something needs to be done to remove people with severe mental illness from public places. But some experts say the mayor’s aggressive new approach may not help.
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Newyork
Banana Peels for Xi Jinping
There’s a Soviet joke that has long circulated in China, about a man who is arrested for protesting in Moscow’s Red Square by holding up a blank sheet of paper. “How can you arrest me?” the man objects in one version. “I didn’t say anything ...
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Newyork
New York’s Plan to Address Crisis of Mentally Ill Faces High Hurdles
Many city residents agree something needs to be done to remove people with severe mental illness from public places. But some experts say the mayor’s aggressive new approach may not help.
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Newyork
The Communist Party Is Losing China’s People
BEIJING — The scenes in China in recent days have been electrifying. Last weekend, in several cities across the country, from cosmopolitan Shanghai to far-western Xinjiang, ordinary people took to the streets to denounce the government’s stifling ...
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Newyork
On City Streets, Fear and Hope as Mayor Launches Push To Remove Mentally Ill
Mayor Eric Adams intends to remove people with severe, untreated mental illness from the streets. That will mean involuntary hospitalization of people deemed unable to care for themselves.